The Washington critic., 1887-03-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

pupcT lhun, pOl HluTTltu ncTc luSt Weck.
"Clarence Dresser Is married. He did
1t as he does everything else, in the full
,ossession Of his faculties and great
q hurry. He dropped down In Washing.
ton about o'clock yesterday after.
noon, hustled around to oil the news.
paper offices, advised the editors of
what was about TO happen, told them
not to take the trouble to send report.
ers to the ceremony, as he would write
1t up himself, jumped on street.car,
got off at the Capitol, called out Dun.
ham, Adams, Lawler and several other
Members, said "how de do" to them,
officially notified them that he was to
be married at $50 o'clock, ran over to
the Senate, announced the fact to Far.
well and CullOm, hurried up to the re.
porters' gallery to see ii he had missed
any one, made general proclamation
OF his intentions, took herdic to q
printing office, wrote up an account
of the wedding in advance, and
with fifty printed slips of 1t In his
pocket started for the house of the
bride. The minister arrived; tied the
knot on schedule time; Dresser kissed
the bride; told her he must be going;
hurried down to the local newspapers;
left printed slips containing his own
account of the wedding; asked that 1t
be given prominent place In the SO.
ciety column, then ran to Newspaper
Row, where he distributed the au.
nouncements with lavish hand, ask.
ing that they be telegraphed over the
country rs favor to fellow, journal.
ist and he would do as much some time
In return. Then he returned to his
bride, took her on his arm, caught the
10 o'clock train South with passes for
two in his pocket, and will travel for
three weeks"
Nv
In the Minnesota Senate the other
day the chaplain startled that august
body by closing his prayer with a word
for the newspaper men. He said
"And now, dear Lord, bless the re-
porters, whose nimble pens catch our
every word almost before 1t Is uttered.
Like Thyself, they are omniprcsent and
almost omnipotent. If we take the
wings of the morning and fly to the
uttermost parts of the earth they are
there. They meet us In the jungles Of
Africa; they waylay us In the solitary
canons of Colorado, and when at length
we find the latitude of the magnetic
pole, behold they are there. May their
light and goodness be equal to their
power, and when the general assembly
of Heaven convenes let no reporter be
excluded. Amen ~
#%#
young Bill English does things on
larger scale than his father has been
accustomed to, said gentleman from
indianapolis to n Chicago UoraM re.
porter. "When the young man was
served with papers in a breach of
promise suit just as he was about to sail
from New York the other day he went
ashore, gave bail, hired tug and
overlook the steamer down the bay.
Probably the tug cost him 800. Now
the old man would have figured closer
than that. Having missed the boat he
would have gone to the shipping of
flee and demanded rebate sufficient to
cover his expenses while waiting for
the next one. Would he have got It?
Well, yes, / should say that he would.
No steamship agent would want to
talk all night about $40 hotel bill"
~
Says Olive Logan in letter to the
Kansas City Times: The visit of Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland to her
brothers palace has naturally added to
the interest of the court receptions. AS
dawn is to the twilight. sweet May to
full September, is the present first lady
, % har to l.
me, such resignation must have been
hard to make Old Queen Bess died
holding her crown on her head with
both hands, but Miss Cleveland was
forced to lay down the sceptre while
yet In the full force of pleasurable
vitality. Such is the state of man; In g,
col testably, unconquerably, a marrying
animal. We hear that Miss Cleveland s
;. new novel Is to be called "ReX and EX.
. Rex but surely she could write with
more intimate knowledge of the
emotions of "Regina and Ex Regina"
A bloodless revolution caused her to
resign her throne; otherwise she and
Eugenie might call themselves sisters
In misfortune. The distance between
Washington and Holland Patent must
be to the full as great as that between
the Tuillerles and Marlborough. Speak
ing of poor Eugene causes me TO recall
the fact that the favoritc flo yer of
the Napoleons Is identical with
= that so highly priced by the
present lady OF the White House.
Mrs, Cleveland's pansy brooch with u
,. diamond dewdrop trembling in the
center has set The fashion In this dlrcc-
tion, and the windows of the jewellers
shops are plenleously provided with
Ceus identical. The Napoleonic en-.
blem in the domain of Flora is the
violet, not the little clustering mauve
flower which has such n luscious odor
but no distinctive shape, and must be
taken en- masse with others of its fel.
lows to be noticed at all, bu! the pansy
violet, la pensee. As Shakespeare says:
"The violet, that's for thoughts, or
as used to know II In my childhood,
and as | warrant you 1t Is called in
many IL pretty, olh.fashlonca garden
still, the johnny jumpup. The ClGye.
land jump.up 1t now is, and a mighty
pretty pOsy, sure; hut 1t has no per-
fume whatever and, therefore, Is to be
deeply pilicd, for IL flowers perfume
Z Is flowers soul.
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Such queer things, says a Washing.
ton letter in the New York Tribune,
happen constantly in what is called
Washington society that one ceases
to be surprised at almost anything, no
matter how absurd or outrageous, that
may be told in connection with its do.
ings. The following is at present go,
ing the rounds of the clubs; A certain
7 hostess, the leader of one of the most
exclusive sets here, gave handsome